tbaker2500 wrote:Hey, that's real neat! Thanks for laying that out. Not being an artist, I enjoy that insight.

(Not to steal any thunder from Unblinking, but) Aaron Diaz who creates the Dresden Codak webcomic (which I dearly love) also writes (draws?) a blog on how to create various visual effects, how he arranges and fills the space on the page and so on.http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/archive/2010/12

It's set out for pretty much amateurs to follow (well, *I* read it and I could follow it fine) and full of great tips and advice.

And, of course, after that (and reading Unblinking's blog - great idea, btw) I heartily recommend people browse through the Dresden Codak webcomic archive http://dresdencodak.com/archives/

StalinSays wrote:Any feedback on the immediate product, feel free to share, it may already be on Tom's/my list and simply unfinished. For one, we want a better gallery for showing off cover art.

This isn't really about the art parts of the site but I noticed there isn't a date showing for each episode.On the side panel there isn't, as far as I can see, any way to search back by month/year so having the date that each episode is published would be quite helpful, especially for new listeners/visitors to the new, spangly site who will have less idea of when different episodes were put out.

The dates we have are still the real, original dates right? No one cares if they're all our wordpress upload dates (AKA 200 posts dated August 2011).

I don't want the month by month breakdown listed on the main page, as I believe we begin to move towards a point of 'links overload.' When you're inside the 'episodes' page, there I could see it.

Usually web sites with large amounts of records have a separate 'browse' page sitting alongside their standard 'search' page. It contains options for alphabetical or chronological sorting. I mulled it for us, but as we two went along, it seemed the default episode number and keyword search sufficed. Now that actual users are seeing, maybe the demand is there. Something to think over, certainly.

I agree with not having a 'year/month/whatever' set of links on the side, especially since there is already a list of categories, the search box, etc.

What I meant about the dates was, since when someone looks at the Drabblecast page there isn't anything (at least not that I can see) in with the info about the episode(s) and the art thumbnail to show when the episode aired.

Especially for new listeners, it isn't even clear if the Drabblecast is a weekly/monthly/fortnightly podcast......

It's not a huge issue, and I'm sure that there are other more important things needing done at the moment, but when it comes to the final tweaking and finessing, having the 'air date' for each ep would be really nifty.